Farlex, Inc., Expands Content, Adds Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage Dictionary to www.TheFreeDictionary.com
Farlex, Inc., announced a significant update of its flagship website, www.TheFreeDictionary.com. The content from Houghton Mifflin Company’s American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition is now available on the Internet’s largest reference portal.
Huntingdon Valley, PA (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) January 18, 2005 –- Farlex, Inc., announced a significant update of
its flagship website, www.TheFreeDictionary.com. The content from Houghton Mifflin
Company’s American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
is now available on the Internet’s largest reference portal. This authoritative
work, the largest of the American Heritage dictionaries, contains over 200,000
boldface headwords and more than 33,000 written examples. It also includes
10,000 new words and senses and 900 of the carefully chosen pieces of color art
that accompany the text of the actual dictionary.
When asked about the
benefits of adding Houghton Mifflin’s American Heritage Dictionary to
TheFreeDictionary.com, Nick Simonov, president of Farlex, stated: “The real
benefit to our users will be access to the definitions from one of the most
respected dictionaries in the world.”
About Farlex, Inc.
Farlex, Inc.
(www.farlex.com), is an
independent, privately held company based in Huntingdon Valley, PA, offering
online reference products. Founded in 2004, Farlex, Inc., provides innovative,
easy-to-use reference and learning tools. Farlex’s flagship websites, www.TheFreeDictionary.com and www.TheFreeLibrary.com,
contain about one million pages of information from the world’s most respected
online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
About
TheFreeDictionary.com
Launched in the spring of 2003, www.TheFreeDictionary.com has quickly grown to become the
largest reference portal on the Internet. TheFreeDictionary.com initially
started as a free online dictionary website. Today in addition to having an
online dictionary, TheFreeDictionary.com also contains English, medical, legal,
and computer dictionaries, a thesaurus, an encyclopedia, a literature reference
library, and a search engine, all in one place. TheFreeDictionary.com has been
accessed by more than one hundred million visitors in 2004.
About
Houghton Mifflin
Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Company is one of the leading
educational publishers in the United States, with more than $1 billion in sales.
Houghton Mifflin publishes textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and
other educational materials for elementary and secondary schools and colleges.
It also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning fiction
and nonfiction for adults and young readers, and offers computer-administered
testing programs and services for the professional and certification markets.
With origins dating back to 1832, Houghton Mifflin combines a tradition of
excellence with a commitment to innovation. Visit the company's website: www.hmco.com.
Contact:
Francesca Lorenz
Farlex,
Inc.
Phone: 215.364.6588
Fax: 215.364.6591
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http://www.farlex.com
Taryn Roeder
Assistant Director of Publicity
Houghton Mifflin
Company
617.351.3818
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http://www.hmco.com
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